Lessons Learned--September 16

The transition from teacher-centered to student-centered instruction was evidenced through the sequence of photos from the "Classroom in 100 Years". In particular, while earlier slides show the teacher standing in front of the classroom lecturing to an entire group of students, some of the later slides (slide 6) show teachers working one on one with a student, in an effort to tailor instruction to individual student needs.  In the later slides, there also appear to be examples of differentiated learning stations (slide 8) that allow students to work in groups around designated learning outcomes.

Overall, the major lesson learned is while the function of education has always remained to impart knowledge to the child--the method for how to most effectively accomplish this, may have changed over time.